Nancy Marsh

Miss Nancy Marsh (May 1, 1817 – December 23, 1890) was a 19th-century missionary, whose work through Central Congregational Church, in Providence, Rhode Island, and across the United States, was well known.

Life

She was the daughter of Prudence Marsh. She lived for a time in Ware, Massachusetts.[1]

She dedicated her life to missionary work, and was city missionary for Central Congregational Church in Providence.[2]

In approximately 1882, she founded the Paper Mission, which provided thousands of papers, lessons, lithographs, and pamphlets to remote locations across the country.[3] She was also active in the Temperance Movement, the Seaman's Bethel, and in working with immigrant groups.

She died with no family survivors, and her coffin was carried by the deacons of the Central Congregational Church.[4]

Legacy

In 1898, the Marsh Paper Mission was formalized. Its roots trace to Nancy Marsh's work at the Sailors' Bethel in Providence, giving out books and magazines to lighthouses and lightships on the Atlantic Coast.[5] Central Congregational Church's Portuguese Mission grew out of the work of Nancy Marsh. The Church's Communion table is was "purchased from the legacy of Miss Nancy Marsh."[6]

References
  1. "Nancy Marsh". FamilySearch.
  2. The Home Missionary, For the Year Ending April. 1891. New York: American Home Missionary Society. 1891. p. 506.
  3. The American Missionary (Volume 39 ed.). American Missionary Association. 1885. p. 243.
  4. The Home Missionary, For the Year Ending April. 1891. New York: American Home Missionary Society. 1891. p. 506.
  5. Appleton, Marguerite; Couch, Herbert N.; Edwards, Gurney; George, Robert H.; Miner, George L.; Parmalee, Charles W. (1952). The First Century of Central Congregational Church. Providence: Central Congregational Church. p. 25.
  6. Appleton, Marguerite; Couch, Herbert N.; Edwards, Gurney; George, Robert H.; Miner, George L.; Parmalee, Charles W. (1952). The First Century of Central Congregational Church. Providence: Central Congregational Church. p. 29.


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